In the second act of this work one character discusses the difficulty of carrying a sheep because its mouth gobbles up leaves and shoots of fig trees. A speech in this work singles out Perseus for being lucky twice: he can fly and he has the ability to turn people into stone. One character is beaten with a strap after he asks his neighbor for a cooking pot to prepare food for a festival for the nymphs of a shrine. Closing with a double wedding involving (*) Kallipides's daughter, this play, set at Phyle in Attica, begins with the god Pan describing the setting. It wasn't until 1957, when Marti
In the second act of this work one character discusses the difficulty of carrying a sheep because its mouth gobbles up leaves and shoots of fig trees. A speech in this work singles out Perseus for being lucky twice: he can fly and he has the ability to turn people into stone. One character is beaten with a strap after he asks his neighbor for a cooking pot to prepare food for a festival for the nymphs of a shrine. Closing with a double wedding involving (*) Kallipides's daughter, this play, set at Phyle in Attica, begins with the god Pan describing the setting. It wasn't until 1957, when Martin Bodmer discovered a papyrus that modern audiences could read this play whose central plot sees Gorgias's sister repeatedly sought by Sostratos. The title senex iratus falls into the well at the end of the third act. Centering on Knemon, for 10 points, name this work of New Comedy, a play of Menander. [Ike]
In the second act of this work one character discusses the difficulty of carrying a sheep because its mouth gobbles up leaves and shoots of fig trees.
The {Grouch} or {Old Cantankerous} or {Dyskolos} [accept equivalents]